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News: A Stone’s Throw Festival announce lineup incl. Sundara Karma, Pip Blom & Opus Kink | May 25th 2024
A Stone’s Throw Festival has today revealed the first wave of acts for their second and biggest event to date, taking place on Saturday, May 25th 2024 within two buzzing towns along Newcastle’s stunning coastline. Headlined by indie powerhouses Sundara Karma, the summer lineup also features Amsterdam trip Pip Blom, revered London rockers Gengahr, punk-infused sensations Bilk, DIY pop newcomer Downtown Kayoto and enigmatic …
Album Review : John Garner – ‘Movie Night’ : Re-imagining the soundtrack through an improviser’s lens.
That most singular of labels, Lewes based Difficult Art And Music consistently end the year with a flourish. They capped 2022 with their three volume cassette release ‘Bivouac Of the Avant Garde’, a fulsome resume of the experimental, leftfield scene from those on the inside. Now to round off 2023, the final release from the …
Premiere: Slow Cinema have a new single ‘Pocket Knife’, and it’s a sharp, precise anthem that swings like a machete. Tour dates announced.
We are honoured to premiere today the absolutely scintillating slice of indie pop ‘Pocket Knife’ from Mulubinba/Newcastle-based indie-rock band Slow Cinema. With its razor sharp guitars and yearning emotive vocals, this is anthemic stadium-ready rock at its most invigorating. If you need a benchmark or point of reference, think of a merging of DMA’s and …
Live Review: Skindred / Blackgold / Cody Frost – NX Newcastle, Newcastle 20.09.2023
Words by Barrah T Al-Badry Photos by Renée Bennett Standing amongst the sold out crowd tonight, it was easy to say the anticipation was infectious. After astellar year with their new album Smile, Newcastle NX welcomed the Welsh metal reggae fusion bandto its stage. Opening the evening was the ever amazing Cody Frost fresh off …
Live Review: Ellie Goulding / Olivia Lunny – O2 City Hall, Newcastle 19.10.23
Words and photos by Francis Fitzgerald For starters, I should say that superstar pop divas are a little outside my comfort zone, but I was invited to review the Ellie Goulding show and was more than pleasantly surprised. If anyone says they don’t know any of her catalogue, they are probably wrong. Nearly every song …
Album Review: Me Lost Me – RPG : folk music of the future now
Folk music for today, what’s that then? Playing the old songs in new ways? Playing new songs in the old ways? Maybe the one tradition that’s certain is that the discussions will circle on and the definitions remain distant while the possibilities of the folk labelled soundscape remain endless. Step up once more Jayne Dent …
Meet: experimental folk explorer ‘Me Lost Me’ ahead of her new album ‘RPG’.
You might call it folktronica, ‘nu’, dark or weird folk, whatever, Jayne Dent (aka ME LOST ME) makes music of singular quality and significant distinction that simply crosses any divide. Intriguingly experimental and enticingly non-traditional, ME LOST ME music occupies those same rubbly furrows as Caroline or Shovel Dance Collective, following a course set by …
Premiere: North Arm’s new single ‘Ordinary Ways’ is a gently simmering dreamy single that sparkles with intensity.
We are overjoyed to premiere the new single ‘Ordinary Ways from North Arm, the project of Novocastrian (NSW) Roderick Smith. The first release since North Arm’s ‘Bring The Daylight’ album back in 2021 (see our review here), ‘Ordinary Ways’ is a slow burning and yet intense track filled with dappling instrumentation sofly swelling underneath Smith’s …
Premiere: Mulubinba/Newcastle based indie-folk artist Bree Rusev is trying ‘One Last Dance’: a beautiful expression with a floating, dreamy delivery.
We are very pleased to premiere the new single ‘One Last Dance’ from Mulubinba/Newcastle based indie-folk artist Bree Rusev: a dreamy floating acoustic-based slice of melancholic sunshine. Dappling guitars and a shuffling percussion form a vibrant undercurrent while Rusev’s soft and ethereal vocals skip across the surface: displaying a dizzying range and a yearning expression …
Track: Awabakal/Newcastle’s dust settles with the evocative thrill of ‘Joy (Guilt)’ on news of new EP and tour.
Hailing from Awabakal / Newcastle, dust have announced their debut EP ‘et cetera, etc’ on 29 March and provided a very enticing taste of what to expect with their new single ‘Joy (Guilt)’. Travelling a very similar path to bands such as Fontaines D.C., The Murder Capital and Idles, but with a distinctly antipodean blush, …